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Schools reopen in Kolkata, yellow-card entry for kids with no dues

KOLKATA: Ashok Hall School, Mahadevi Birla Shishu Vihar and G D Birla Centre for Education reopened their gates on Monday to those students whose parents have cleared their pending fees, following a two-day shutdown. While these students were given special identity cards, the rest stayed away from the schools, ensuring…

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SSC probe report: West Bengal panel, its appointments illegal

KOLKATA: A committee appointed by the Calcutta High Court to probe irregularities in school recruitment has found the five-member panel set up by the education department to oversee the appointments “not valid under the law” and has blamed the panel members for the illegal appointments in Group D posts.

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Drug addiction debilitating TS

Drug abuse in Telangana leaving police officials ‘high’ and dry

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Dera chief’s furlough: Not for court to correct ambiguity in law, says HC

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that in case of any ambiguity in the words used by the legislature in enactment of a statute, the court would not go to its aide to correct the same.

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Bihar lacks ‘mechanism’ to stop liquor smuggling: Patna HC

PATNA: The Patna high court has expressed its displeasure over the absence of any mechanism to identify liquor smugglers in Bihar, leading to “flourishing gangs and economic offences due to rampant illicit liquor trade”.

The Times of India

HC: Don’t look for proof, but for lack of mala fide in case withdrawal plea

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that while hearing an application filed by a public prosecutor for withdrawal of prosecution in a criminal case, the trial court judge should see if the application for withdrawal is free from any taint of mala fides. The HC…

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No vicarious liability on state for judicial actions: Calcutta high court

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a Rs 100-crore compensation claim against the Bengal government for vicarious liability, holding it responsible in a case of alleged defamation against a high court judge. “There is no master-servant relationship between the State and a High Court Judge, and accordingly, there is…

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Trial courts can give life till death only in rape cases, says Calcutta HC

KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court has directed all trial court judges to stop the practice of sentencing murder convicts to life imprisonment till death, unless in heinous rape and gangrape cases in which law provides for such sentences. It said such orders can be misinterpreted that the sentences cannot be…

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Convicted for 2 murders & 2 rapes, Dera chief Ram Rahim 'not hardcore prisoner', says Punjab and Haryana high court

CHANDIGARH: In a major respite to Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the controversial chief of Dera Sacha Sauda who is undergoing imprisonment in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail after being convicted for two murders and two rapes, the Punjab and Haryana high court has held that he does not fall in the category of…

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Kolkata: 3 schools cite ‘agitation’, shut ‘till further notice’

KOLKATA: Three prominent city schools — all under same management — announced on Thursday that they were "shut until further notice", in wake of ongoing tension between a section of parents and school authorities over fees, throwing into uncertainty future of nearly 7,000 students who are on their rolls.

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HC notices to State over ED contempt plea

HYDERABAD

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Karnataka HC stays order on compulsory Kannada for degree students

BENGALURU: Citing the stand taken by the Centre, the Karnataka HC on Wednesday formally stayed the operation of two notifications issued by the state government last year making the study of Kannada as a compulsory subject for degree students.

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TS Govt. seeks dismissal of review pleas on Raidurg land

HYDERABAD

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Azaan issue: Police begin issuing notices, security heightened in and around religious places

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Bombay HC stays till May 5 summons issued to Salman Khan by Mumbai court on journalist’s plaint

Journalist Ashok Pandey had alleged that actor Salman Khan had snatched his mobile phone while cycling on a Mumbai street when some media persons started clicking his photos

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HC closes contempt matter against Venkatrami Reddy

HYDERABAD

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Oct 2021 bandh was not a cabinet decision: Maharashtra govt to Bombay HC

MUMBAI: Seeking dismissal of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by former Mumbai police chief Julio Ribeiro and other prominent senior city citizens seeking Rs 3,000 crore compensation from the MVA partners for a state sponsored bandh last year, Maharashtra government said it was not a cabinet decision and that…

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Restore creditworthiness of buyers in stalled projects: Delhi HC

NEW DELHI: Delhi high court has directed the banks to convey to CIBIL to restore the creditworthiness of homebuyers who stopped paying EMIs for incomplete projects.

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Amaravati development: Andhra Pradesh government appeals to HC to give five years time

Chief secretary Sameer Sharma said in an affidavit that the application for removal of timelines or extension of time was filed to avoid giving an impression that the court directions are being defied.

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CJI’s word of caution to CBI echoes a Madras HC verdict which attempted to free the ‘caged parrot’

The public clamour in courts for a CBI investigation is losing reverberance, and will die unless the agency breaks its “nexus” with the political executive, CJI Ramana said

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Telangana HC summons chief secretary Somesh Kumar over poll delay

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Friday directed chief secretary Somesh Kumar to be present in court on June 6 to explain reasons for not holding election to Bhadrachalam panchayat in the past four years and the delay of two years on the state’s part to file its counter.

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SC relief for restaurant associations battling FL-III license hike

MUMBAI: In a reprieve to the Indian Hotels and Restaurant Association (AHAR), Hotel and Restaurant Association of western India (HRAWI) and seven other associations, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the imposition of Rs 9 lakh as costs on them by Bombay high court and granted interim relief against any…

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Bombay HC seeks presence of directors of two Essar companies on April 1

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Thursday directed the directors of Essar House Pvt Ltd and Essar Services India Pvt Ltd to remain present personally in the court on Friday for a contempt petition filed against the companies by ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Ltd (formerly Essar Steel India Ltd) and…

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Chhattisgarh HC allows Raipur, Bilaspur smart cities to issue work orders

RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh high court on Thursday allowed interim applications moved by Raipur and Bilaspur smart cities and allowed the issue of work orders to the tune of Rs 700 crores for the development of both the cities.

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Officials transferred for misbehaviour, DGP informs Punjab and Haryana HC

CHANDIGARH: Taking cognizance of the reports in which a warrant officer appointed by the Punjab and Haryana high court had accused CIA staff of Panipat police of misbehaviour, the police department has transferred the CIA incharge concerned and other cops out of Panipat and also ordered departmental inquiry against them.

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